Hello again!
First things first, thank you to everyone who came out last
month for our trio of Richard Youngs shows, it was a true labour of love using
those outré venues and it was brilliant to see some many of you in attendance.
Our next event takes place this Thursday with RICHARD DAWSON at The Lexington. This show has been long sold out
but we’re happy to announce a further show with Richard for this May, the full
listing for that one can be found at the end of this message, alongside
listings for newly announced concerts for ROSE
MCDOWALL, PROLAPSE, REIGNING SOUND, MIKAL CRONIN, MADALYN MERKEY,
NO BABIES and MARGY PEPPER, been busy haven’t we? In other news our DAN DEACON show next Monday has but ten
tickets left for sale now, so do act fast if you fancy coming to that one. Also,
the following Tuesday we’re lucky enough to have DOPE BODY in town, playing the Montague Arms with support from WALKER / MELCHIOR, BLACK FUNGUS and LOWER
SLAUGHTER, certainly promises to be memorable! Full write-ups for both of
those shows follow...
\\\\\ MONDAY /////
DAN DEACON
ERGO PHIZMIZ
Monday 16 February
Islington Assembly
Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
DAN DEACON is an absurdist
composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Musically
influenced by Devo, Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond
Scott and Conlon Nancarrow, Dan's music strives to take modern experimental
composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual
gangs and hipster communities, placing it into the more informal "fun
time". Dan's music is about community and how to organise and inspire it.
With the success of Deacon’s 2007 album ‘Spiderman of the Rings’, came an
opportunity for the electronic-music iconoclast to increase the breadth and
depth of his entire musical project. Deacon moved from self-contained computer
music to orchestral epics. His interactive live show, honed in DIY spaces, was taken
to museums and concert halls. He frequently expanded his performances to
include a horde of side musicians. After a string of large ensemble projects
(including 2009’s ‘Bromst’ and 2012’s ‘America’) Deacon started longing for the
simplicity of the days when he did nearly everything himself. Now he’s back
touring in support of a new album entitled ’Gliss Riffer’, an entirely
self-produced record of almost all electronic sounds, which was “easily the
most fun [he’s] ever had making a record.”
While ‘Gliss Riffer’ contains all the instrumental layering we’ve come to expect, the vocals are mixed with a prominence and, at times, a clarity that have never been heard on a Dan Deacon record before. Lyrical images of lightning, oceans, lakes, and roads crop up frequently as stand-ins for freedom and self-realisation. The tracks were started on the ever-changing landscapes that greet a touring musician. This new record also marks the first time Deacon replaced his digitally realised parts with analog synthesisers, giving Deacon the opportunity to experiment in the same way he did with strings and wind instruments on ‘America’. What makes Dan Deacon such an impressive musician has always been his aesthetic directness and ecstatic energy, all of this along with the heightened ‘focus on fun’ of his absorbing live shows has finally been translated onto an album. It’s a euphoria tempered by yearning and set in defiance of life’s nagging anxiety. “Happiness takes time,” we are reminded by tremolo vocals in the middle of the supremely danceable “Mind on Fire.” The bliss on this new album is well-earned.
http://www.dandeacon.com/index.html
ERGO PHIZMIZ first came to critical attention for his experimental electronica and sound collage and being name checked in John Peel’s autobiography. As a composer and music conceptualist the last decade has seen him active in nearly every form of music from film scores (including for art star Christian Marclay to Channel 4) to chamber operas, such as the increasingly cultish The Mourning Show to award winning radio commissions of all kinds for German National radio and BBC3 and 4. Most recently his music has been reaching the ears of a wider audience with his distinctive and crafted approach to songwriting which has been received to widespread critical acclaim. Never playing a song the same way twice he’s currently assembled a basic ramshackle trio to charm and blunder his way through his recent album “Eleven Songs” along with newly penned numbers.
http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.co.uk/
While ‘Gliss Riffer’ contains all the instrumental layering we’ve come to expect, the vocals are mixed with a prominence and, at times, a clarity that have never been heard on a Dan Deacon record before. Lyrical images of lightning, oceans, lakes, and roads crop up frequently as stand-ins for freedom and self-realisation. The tracks were started on the ever-changing landscapes that greet a touring musician. This new record also marks the first time Deacon replaced his digitally realised parts with analog synthesisers, giving Deacon the opportunity to experiment in the same way he did with strings and wind instruments on ‘America’. What makes Dan Deacon such an impressive musician has always been his aesthetic directness and ecstatic energy, all of this along with the heightened ‘focus on fun’ of his absorbing live shows has finally been translated onto an album. It’s a euphoria tempered by yearning and set in defiance of life’s nagging anxiety. “Happiness takes time,” we are reminded by tremolo vocals in the middle of the supremely danceable “Mind on Fire.” The bliss on this new album is well-earned.
http://www.dandeacon.com/index.html
ERGO PHIZMIZ first came to critical attention for his experimental electronica and sound collage and being name checked in John Peel’s autobiography. As a composer and music conceptualist the last decade has seen him active in nearly every form of music from film scores (including for art star Christian Marclay to Channel 4) to chamber operas, such as the increasingly cultish The Mourning Show to award winning radio commissions of all kinds for German National radio and BBC3 and 4. Most recently his music has been reaching the ears of a wider audience with his distinctive and crafted approach to songwriting which has been received to widespread critical acclaim. Never playing a song the same way twice he’s currently assembled a basic ramshackle trio to charm and blunder his way through his recent album “Eleven Songs” along with newly penned numbers.
http://ergophizmiz.blogspot.co.uk/
\\\\\ TUESDAY /////
DOPE BODY
WALKER / MELCHIOR
BLACK FUNGUS
LOWER SLAUGHTER
Tuesday 17 February
Montague Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298722
DOPE BODY are a primordial, psych-addled noise rock beast from Baltimore! Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upside-down and standing on its hands. 2012 saw their stunning album 'Natural History' come out on Drag City. Now, two years later, the Baltimore quartet have returned with new album ‘Lifer’, which sees Dope Body taking a departure from their past releases. Their raw, off-kilter virility still makes for a ferocious record. Yet gone are the frenetic guitar melodies, being replaced with full-frontal riffing that dynamically ebbs and flows. ‘Lifer’ is the elder statesman of Dope Body's output thus far, calling for greater structure and direction without losing any of its rough intensity. If anything, they have revved up their raucous energy, with the heavy moments being relentlessly driving, a weighty Cadillac hurtling forward across a fractured tarmac. There is greater focus on progression, building the songs into the bludgeoning thrash they inevitably become.
http://dopebody.tumblr.com/
WALKER / MELCHIOR is a collaboration between two largely prolific artists, Dan Melchior (Dan Melchior und Das Menace, Lloyd Pack) and Russell Walker (The Pheromoans, Bomber Jackets, Lloyd Pack). The duo’s sound occupies the groggy morning hours that bleed into the bright sun, as heard on their recent 7” for Kill Shaman. ‘Sad Son In-Law’ unfolds with a juxtaposing mix of buzzing sounds and glowing synths, progressively detailed by a string of jewel-toned guitar quests. Snaps, pops and perhaps even a harmonica begin to emerge in the sun-filled loop, guiding Walker’s sung-spoken-word vocals with a wonky bass line. ‘I Could Sit Here Forever’ comes off damaged and broken with unpredictable guitar noodling and beams of synth, before blossoming into something exceptionally gospel-like and inside one’s head. A debut album is expected soon!
https://soundcloud.com/kill-shaman-records/melchiorwalker-sad-son-in-law-melchiorwalker-7
BLACK FUNGUS have released a tape on Milk Records and already have another set of recordings in the works. This three piece feature members of Witching Waves and Gloss Rejection, who work up an impressive mix of hook laden song craft and discordant imbalance. Elements abound of the DIY American noise rock hay day combined with Gordons-esque post-punk.
https://soundcloud.com/blackfungus
LOWER SLAUGHTER are a four piece rock band from Brighton, featuring past/present members of King Of Cats and Shudder Pulps who churn out big riff righteous heaviness through volume, drawing comparisons to Pissed Jeans, Karp & Harvey Milk.
http://www.facebook.com/lowerslaughter
WALKER / MELCHIOR
BLACK FUNGUS
LOWER SLAUGHTER
Tuesday 17 February
Montague Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298722
DOPE BODY are a primordial, psych-addled noise rock beast from Baltimore! Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upside-down and standing on its hands. 2012 saw their stunning album 'Natural History' come out on Drag City. Now, two years later, the Baltimore quartet have returned with new album ‘Lifer’, which sees Dope Body taking a departure from their past releases. Their raw, off-kilter virility still makes for a ferocious record. Yet gone are the frenetic guitar melodies, being replaced with full-frontal riffing that dynamically ebbs and flows. ‘Lifer’ is the elder statesman of Dope Body's output thus far, calling for greater structure and direction without losing any of its rough intensity. If anything, they have revved up their raucous energy, with the heavy moments being relentlessly driving, a weighty Cadillac hurtling forward across a fractured tarmac. There is greater focus on progression, building the songs into the bludgeoning thrash they inevitably become.
http://dopebody.tumblr.com/
WALKER / MELCHIOR is a collaboration between two largely prolific artists, Dan Melchior (Dan Melchior und Das Menace, Lloyd Pack) and Russell Walker (The Pheromoans, Bomber Jackets, Lloyd Pack). The duo’s sound occupies the groggy morning hours that bleed into the bright sun, as heard on their recent 7” for Kill Shaman. ‘Sad Son In-Law’ unfolds with a juxtaposing mix of buzzing sounds and glowing synths, progressively detailed by a string of jewel-toned guitar quests. Snaps, pops and perhaps even a harmonica begin to emerge in the sun-filled loop, guiding Walker’s sung-spoken-word vocals with a wonky bass line. ‘I Could Sit Here Forever’ comes off damaged and broken with unpredictable guitar noodling and beams of synth, before blossoming into something exceptionally gospel-like and inside one’s head. A debut album is expected soon!
https://soundcloud.com/kill-shaman-records/melchiorwalker-sad-son-in-law-melchiorwalker-7
BLACK FUNGUS have released a tape on Milk Records and already have another set of recordings in the works. This three piece feature members of Witching Waves and Gloss Rejection, who work up an impressive mix of hook laden song craft and discordant imbalance. Elements abound of the DIY American noise rock hay day combined with Gordons-esque post-punk.
https://soundcloud.com/blackfungus
LOWER SLAUGHTER are a four piece rock band from Brighton, featuring past/present members of King Of Cats and Shudder Pulps who churn out big riff righteous heaviness through volume, drawing comparisons to Pissed Jeans, Karp & Harvey Milk.
http://www.facebook.com/lowerslaughter
One last
thing before bidding you farewell, Berlin experimental ensemble
s t a r g a z e, will be performing orchestral arrangements
(composed by Greg Saunier) of some Deerhoof songs at Village Underground in
April, chamber variations in fact. There’s
also a collaboration with The Dodos live at the same event, sounds pretty
interesting! You can find out more here: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?id=17788
Thanks as
always for reading!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
x
\\\\\ UPSET
THE RHYTHM /////
///// UPCOMING SHOWS
\\\\\
RICHARD DAWSON
ORCHESTRA ELASTIQUE
Thursday 12
February
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | SOLD OUT
DAN DEACON
ERGO PHIZMIZ
Monday 16 February
Islington Assembly
Hall, Upper Street, Islington, N1 2UD
DOPE BODY
BLACK FUNGUS
WALKER / MELCHIOR
LOWER SLAUGHTER
Tuesday 17
February
Montague
Arms, 289 Queen's Rd, New Cross Gate, SE14 2PA
7.30pm | £6 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298722
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
Friday 20
February
Maison Folie,
8 Rue des Arbalestriers, Mons, 7000, Belgium
8pm | FREE
DEERHOOF
TRASH KIT
COWTOWN
Thursday 26
February
Oval Space,
29-32 The Oval, Cambridge Heath, E2 9DT
7pm | SOLD OUT
MADALYN MERKEY
MEDDICINE
RATTLE
Friday 20 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308428
MEDDICINE
RATTLE
Friday 20 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308428
CIAN NUGENT
Sunday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7pm | £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/303092
PURLING HISS
PRIMITIVE PARTS
KRISTIAN HARTING
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
Wednesday 25 March
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/299736
FUTURE ISLANDS
Monday 30
March
Tuesday 31
March
In collaboration with
Parallel Lines…
The
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Rd, London NW1 8EH
7pm | SOLD OUT
NEIL MICHAEL HAGERTY
Two different sets
Friday 3 April
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin
Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
8pm | £10 | https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/upset-rhythm-cafe-oto-present-neil-michael-hagerty/
HAPPY MEALS
APOSTILLE
DESIGN A WAVE
Thursday 9 April
Power Lunches, 446
Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/305560
SCREAMING FEMALES
GLOBELAMP
Friday 24 April
The Lexington, 96-98
Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
MOON DUO
Thursday 30 April
Village Underground,
54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PQ
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/302760
RICHARD DAWSON
Wednesday 13 May
Bethnal
Green Working Men's Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308980
8pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308980
THE JULIE RUIN
Tuesday 26
May
Electric
Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, Camden, NW1 8QP
7.30pm | 12 |
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/254362
ROSE MCDOWALL
Thursday 28 May
St Pancras Old
Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/309198
PROLAPSE
ART TRIP
AND THE STATIC SOUND
Friday 29 May
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10 | SOLD
OUT
PROLAPSE
THE WOLFHOUNDS
Saturday 30
May
The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308600
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 1 June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10
| http://www.wegottickets.com/event/307035
NO BABIES
MARGY PEPPER
Tuesday 9 June
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308647
MARGY PEPPER
Tuesday 9 June
The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308647
REIGNING SOUND
THE NUMBER ONES
Monday 22
June
100 Club, 100
Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
8pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/308293
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